[Word to PDF]: Bookmarks pane

[Shlomo Perets]

Khizran,

You wrote:

 > I have created a document in MS Word 2000 and converted to PDF using Adobe
 > PDFMaker 5.0 for Word. I wanted the bookmarks to be displayed and for that I
 > selected Bookmarks and Page radio button in Change Conversion Settings
 > -> Display -> Document Open Options. Then when I converted the word document
 > to pdf, it did display the bookmark pane in the pdf file only that all the
 > bookmarks displayed were expanded. I want the bookmarks to be displayed in a
 > collapsed form.

 > I am not quite sure how to set this property. Can anyone please help?


If not handled automatically by the authoring application or the conversion 
to PDF:
expanding a specific branch and then using Save/Save As as will register 
that branch as being expanded, so it will become the default state upon 
opening the PDF.


Notes:

* Ctrl-clicking the [-] icon to the left of a bookmark will collapse all 
subordinate bookmarks (and likewise, Ctrl-cliking the [+] icon will expand 
all subordinate bookmarks).

* If you have to resort to collapsing bookmarks manually in Acrobat and 
need to do this repeatedly, there is a free plug-in that will collapse 
top-level bookmarks in one action:
http://www.planetpdf.com/mainpage.asp?webpageid=637.

* Even if a PDF file has security settings which do not allow any 
modifications, you can still "Save As", which does modify the bookmark 
setup as described above.


Shlomo Perets

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